I always thought it was called the O’s (oh’s)… at least with antique cars. I have an '08 (oh-eight) Buick, etc. Or, it is also sometimes referred as the “pre-teens”.
The first one is self explanatory where as the second seems to be two people determined to start a movement to get the first decade called the “Noughties®”. Yes, thats ® as in Registered.
(edited to fix link)
[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 01-06-2001 at 09:44 AM]
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My daughter recently made a comment about the “tookays.” I said, “What?”
“You know, the Tookays. Right now. Like the Nineties, only now it’s the Tookays.”
I don’t know how common it is, but she seemed to take it for granted, so I suppose it’s part of the vernacular among at least her particular group of high school students.
The problem is that technically most of the millennium will be the 2 k’s. 2000, 2001, 2010, 2465, 2999. All start with “two thousand…” 2k has nothing to do with the decade - that comes 2 digits later (2 orders of magnitude smaller?)
The first link in the OP doesn’t work, while the second connects to a website for someone’s system to keep track of IOUs, which has nothing to do with the decade. Not to be too suspicious, but since this is Orgazmo’s first and only post, do you think we’ve been spammed?
Sure, but we’re not talking about something logical here, we’re talking about something that rolls off the tongue and is quickly recognizable. 2K has nothing to do with the decade, sure, but in the common vernacular, it has everything to do with right now.
In ten years (well, slightly more) we’re back to Teens, and then Twenties, etc. (Maybe we say Tookay Teens to get specific.) But right now we got this weird thing going down. Aughts? Aughties? My grandfather used to use the word aught, but it sounds goofy coming out of my mouth. Zips, Ciphers? Wha-?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a huge advocate of “Tookays,” It’s just that it made sense and has kinda stuck in my head. Probably after several years of Y2K hysteria being rammed down my throat, I’ve got the syllables permanently burned into a few neurons. Yes, it had to be explained to me by a 15-year-old first time I heard, but so does 90% of what she says. Now it just sorta kinda fits.
Of course, maybe we should call this decade The Chads, since so many of those in recent memory ended up being zeros.
The first link connects to the Professor IOU system; the second link doesn’t work. Backing up a step and going to http://www.senet.com.au/~qstarr/ brings up a “Page Not Found”.
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I was remiss and didn’t click on the links in the OP. The first link (name the decade) does bring to a site about IOUs, and there seems to be some mistake there since the subject of the site seems at variance with the domain name.
However, the second link does bring us to a page that advocates calling the first decade of the next millennium “The Noughties”. A hint to our posters: when a link is invalid, it sometimes pays off to take a look at what was typed in and see if there is an obvious error. In the case of the link http://www.senet.com.au/~gstarr/noughties.html, there was a period at the end of the link in the OP, and since filenames don’t usually end with a period, and the link in the OP was at the end of the sentence, I tried the simple expedient of removing the period at the end. Voilà! A working link. I will now go fix it in the OP.
If the OP visits this thread again, I hope s/he will explain what information the “namethedecade” link was supposed to provide.